Little by little

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

— Amelia Earhart​

The muse visits during the act of creation, not before.

— Roger Ebert

Greatness is achieved in the agency of others.

How do we build economic security, foster love, and find joy? How do we get rich? ...Slowly.

— Scott Galloway

That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.

— Stan Lee

God is in the details.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

What you most want to find will be found where you least want to look.

— Jordan Peterson, interpreting Carl Jung

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

— Bene Gesserit, Litany Against Fear (from the novel Dune)

Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

— Alan Watts

Und dann muss man ja auch noch Zeit haben, einfach dazusitzen und vor sich hin zu schauen.

— Astrid Lindgren

Die einzigen wirklichen Feinde eines Menschen sind seine negativen Gedanken.

— Albert Einstein (unchecked)

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

— Carl Jung

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so.

— Mark Twain (false attribution)

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

— Maya Angelou

Was immer geschieht: Nie dürft ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken.

— Erich Kästner

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt